Experience

MB4 Productions

• United States
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director, Client Relations

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  After a live event hiatus for the better part of 2020 I am returning with a focus on assisting planners engage attendees using new tools and strategies. MB4 helps event professionals produce more effective virtual, hybrid, and in-person meetings. After a live event hiatus for the better part of 2020 I am returning with a focus on assisting planners engage attendees using new tools and strategies. MB4 helps event professionals produce more effective virtual, hybrid, and in-person meetings.



SmartSource Rentals

• Account Executive

  • Jan 2016 - May 2020

  A return to the events industry was in order and within the technology niche I was able to combine my experience as a planner with my interest in the latest tech. Having been a planner gave me a deep understanding my customers. A return to the events industry was in order and within the technology niche I was able to combine my experience as a planner with my interest in the latest tech. Having been a planner gave me a deep understanding my customers.



sweetgreen

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head Coach

  • May 2013 - Dec 2015

  To this point my career had been very linear, which was about to change. In sweetgreen I found a brand in which I first fell in love with its product and then came to embrace its corporate philosophy. After meeting with the company founders I turned a dream of trying something different into reality.The farm-to-table salad shops that got their start in Washington, D.C. now include locations across the country. As Head Coach I was General Manager of a restaurant, responsible for unit operations including sales, costs, labor, scheduling, and financial analysis. The Head Coach also hires, trains, coaches, and motivates employees to promote professional and internal growth of the entire team.Handling business operations for a restaurant is like putting on a event 7 days a week 365 days a year. So I found my event experience very useful, but I also learned a tremendous amount about daily financial forecasting, ordering perishable product, and scheduling employees for an operation that closes its doors only two days each year. I am proud of building my store into the top grossing and most profitable in the DC market.My transition to Operations Services Manager was underway, but cut short by the company's headquarter relocation to Los Angeles.



Experient, a Maritz Travel Company

• Director, Government Events

  • Nov 2008 - Mar 2013

  My move to Experient was very much a progression from managing contracts to managing an business segment. I took on responsibility for building a new department responsible for Federal services within the company. In this role I learned about strong fiscal planning skills (annual revenue and expense budgeting; 12-month rolling forecasts; reporting actuals and accounting for variances) and continued to develop my staff supervision and client relationship management skills. Client agencies included: Department of Defense (DoD), Veterans Affairs Administration (VA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Treasury, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).



Synergy Enterprises, Inc.

• United States
• Government Relations Services

• Project Director

  • Jun 2004 - Oct 2008

  I was recruited to join SEI, a spin-off company of DB, as the eighth employee for the start-up. During this phase of my career I was lucky to learn directly from the person I consider my greatest mentor. Beginning in the role of Deputy Project Director I soon took on contracts management on my own as Project Director. I led the service of multiple contracts providing logistical and IT services to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). I was recruited to join SEI, a spin-off company of DB, as the eighth employee for the start-up. During this phase of my career I was lucky to learn directly from the person I consider my greatest mentor. Beginning in the role of Deputy Project Director I soon took on contracts management on my own as Project Director. I led the service of multiple contracts providing logistical and IT services to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).



DB Consulting Group, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Project Director

  • Aug 2002 - May 2004

  I moved into the private sector with DB. Hired as a Meeting Planner I was promoted to a Senior Conference Manager position and then to Assistant Project Director. All of these roles with the same client, the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (NIDA CTN). I provided oversight of day-to-day operations under a logistical and IT services contract. I moved into the private sector with DB. Hired as a Meeting Planner I was promoted to a Senior Conference Manager position and then to Assistant Project Director. All of these roles with the same client, the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (NIDA CTN). I provided oversight of day-to-day operations under a logistical and IT services contract.



University of Maryland

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Manager

  • Apr 1999 - Aug 2002

  My first job out of college and I stayed in the university setting. I was able to leverage my summer experiences with Conference Services at William & Mary into a professional position at UMD. I contracted, planned, and organized conferences, camps, youth programs, and special events from a facility perspective. I was the primary liaison between external clients and on-campus service providers. My first job out of college and I stayed in the university setting. I was able to leverage my summer experiences with Conference Services at William & Mary into a professional position at UMD. I contracted, planned, and organized conferences, camps, youth programs, and special events from a facility perspective. I was the primary liaison between external clients and on-campus service providers.